Final

Question 1

How were early atlantic crossings accomplished?

Answer 1

Stopping multiple times

Question 2

What aircraft were flying across the atlantic in 1919?

Answer 2

Flying boats

WWI surplus airplanes

Question 3

Who completed the first transatlantic flight?

Answer 3

A.C. Read and his crew

Question 4

In what airplane was the first transatlantic flight completed?

Answer 4

NC-4

Question 5

How did NC-4 make it across the Atlantic?

Answer 5

Hop from stop to stop

Follow a line of naval ships across the ocean

Question 6

When was the first Atlantic crossing?

Answer 6

Between 8 - 31 May 1919

Question 7

What was the best direction to cross the Atlantic?

Answer 7

West - East due to the prevailing tailwind

Question 8

What was the Alcock-Brown crossing?

Answer 8

John Alcock and Arthur Brown flew a modified Vickers Vimy called Atlantic from Newfoundland to Ireland, completing the first non-stop transatlantic flight and winning the Daily Mail prize

Question 9

Where was the Los Angeles built?

Answer 9

Zeppelin works, Friedrichshafen

Question 10

Where was the Shenandoah built?

Answer 10

Lakehurst Naval Air Station

Question 11

Why did the Americans use helium?

Answer 11

Because it was not flammable

Question 12

Why was the Los Angeles built?

Answer 12

As a training airship for the Navy

Question 13

What did the building of the Los Angeles allow the Germans to do?

Answer 13

Since the airship was a civil airship it could be built in Germany. The Germans were able to convince the winning powers that airships were not useful in war and remained open.

Question 14

Where was the Graf Zeppelin built?

Answer 14

Germany

Question 15

What is barnstorming?

Answer 15

Pilots flying from farmers field to farmers filed across the nation

Question 16

What was Ormer Locklear known for?

Answer 16

Famous wing walker

Starred in the 1920 silent film “The Great Air Robbery”

Question 17

What was Clyde Pangborn known for?

Answer 17

Popularized the car-to-plane stunt

Question 18

What did Gladys Ingle become popular for?

Answer 18

Transferring between airplanes in flight

Question 19

What was Jack Shack known for?

Answer 19

Performed trapeze acts below planes in flight

Question 20

What did Ace Ernst Udet become known for?

Answer 20

Did aerobatics

Picked up a handkerchief from the ground with his wingtip

Question 21

What happened to Billy Mitchell in the end?

Answer 21

Court-martialed

Question 22

What did Billy Mitchell do?

Answer 22

Publicly criticized military aviation
Blamed the War Department for the loss of the Shenandoah
Supported all aviation
Rooted for a strong independent air force

Question 23

What is special about the Dornier Wal?

Answer 23

Very successful skip-and-jump airplane across the Atlantic

Used for airmail

Question 24

What’s autogiration?

Answer 24

Engine set the rotor in motion, but once in the air, the motion continued via the slipstream acting upon the blades

Question 25

What's cyclic control?

Answer 25

A mechanism to change the pitch of individual blades during rotation and thereby to vary the thrust as needed to tilt the aircraft

Question 26

Who was Pierre Latecoere?

Answer 26

Wanted to link France with French territories and establish air mail routes (Africa)

Question 27

What was the Air Mail Act of 1925 about?

Answer 27

Kelly Act | Contracting of airmail to commercial airlines

Question 28

What was the Air Commerce Act of 1926 about?

Answer 28

The Department of Commerce took over the maintenance and operation of airways for mail flying from the Post Office Department

Question 29

How did the US compare to air mail flying elsewhere?

Answer 29

Lagged far behind in the development of mail planes and airliners Country neglected commercial aviation

Question 30

What was the Orteig Prize?

Answer 30

$25,000 prize for the first non-stop airplane flight between New York and Paris in either direction

Question 31

How did Lindbergh gain all the experience he had?

Answer 31

Flying mail planes

Question 32

What were characteristics of the Spirit of St. Louis?

Answer 32

Very unstable | Difficult to fly blind or at night

Question 33

What were the Goodwill Tours?

Answer 33

Lindbergh flew the Spirit of St. Louis around the US to promote aviation (reliability of aircraft, safety of aviation). He also flew to 17 Latin America countries

Question 34

What was the Southern Cross

Answer 34

Fokker airplanes Used in 1928 to cross the Pacific Australian pilots, American navigators

Question 35

Who was Douglas Corrigan?

Answer 35

Native Texan Worked on the construction of the Spirit of St. Louis Crossed the Atlantic without authorization and claimed that he got lost on his way to California Gave him the nickname Wrong-Way Corrigan

Question 36

What did Wiley Post do?

Answer 36

Flew around the world in 1931 Soloed the world in 1933 Used a Lockheed Vega

Question 37

Who was Bernard Pietenpol?

Answer 37

Designed the first homebuilt airplanes utilizing Ford car engines

Question 38

What did Wiley Post work on?

Answer 38

A pressure suit for stratospheric flight since his plane wasn't pressurized

Question 39

What's an autogiro?

Answer 39

Has both a rotor and propeller

Question 40

What was the first Piper Cub?

Answer 40

J-3

Question 41

What was Aeropostale?

Answer 41

Originated in France as a mail carrier Brazilian airline Owned by Brazil resident Marcel Bouillox-Lafont Had the longest line of routes in the world

Question 42

Where did Air France come from?

Answer 42

In 1933 France merged its five airlines into one | Had a fleet of 259 aircraft, but more than half were single-engine and thus obsolete in a commercial setting

Question 43

What were some of Deutsche Luft Hansas firsts?

Answer 43

Installed radios on large transport planes | Made instrument rating compulsory for transport pilots (1929)

Question 44

Why were airplanes loaded onto ships and shot from a catapult?

Answer 44

Could carry more weight

Question 45

What did the British airlines accomplish?

Answer 45

Only flew flying boats Only carried rich passengers Lacked a national airway route

Question 46

Who was the Collier Trophy awarded to?

Answer 46

Constant speed prop from Hamilton Standard | Developed by Frank Caldwell

Question 47

Where did the big four American airlines come from>

Answer 47

William Boeing's United Aircraft & Transport Corporation consolidated many companies = United Airlines Eastern Air Lines Western group of aviation equipment and airlines (WAE, TAT, Pacific) = Transcontinental and Western Air (TWA) AVCO consolidated companies = American Air Lines

Question 48

What was special about the 247?

Answer 48

First modern airliner (constant speed prop, retract, cowled engines, trim tabs, deice boots, radio equipment, six pack)

Question 49

How much money went into the air mail?

Answer 49

2 cents

Question 50

Who founded Pratt & Whitney?

Answer 50

Frederick Rentschler

Question 51

Who started Pan Am?

Answer 51

Juan Trippe

Question 52

What's Jeppesen's background?

Answer 52

Started flying as a teenager Barnstormed Airmail pilot Collected info on airmail routes and started a publishing service to make his info available to other pilots Published his first airway manual in 1934

Question 53

What was the first monopoly that Pan Am had?

Answer 53

Cuba

Question 54

What was the four-course radio?

Answer 54

Broadcast two directional signals (A, N) and told the pilot when he was on or off course Also used to disseminate WX info

Question 55

What did the Graf Zeppelin do in 1939?

Answer 55

Flew around the world

Question 56

He as the person in charge of the Graf Zeppelin?

Answer 56

Hugo Eckener